Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.Annie Dillard
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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You can't test courage cautiously.
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I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, If I did not know about god and sin, would I go to hell. No, said the priest, not if you did not know, Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me.
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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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